Cotton futures are trading with 12 to 25 point losses on the Thursday session. Crude oil is down $1.68 cents/barrel at $66.70, with the US dollar index $0.171 lower to $97.370. USDA Export Sales data showed 75,089 RB of old crop cotton bookings in the week ending on July 3. Of that total, 33,600 RB […]
The results reveal a market where the barriers to homeownership have not so much disappeared as changed form, shifting from the rate shock of recent years to a deeper psychological freeze driven by macroeconomic unpredictability. “Rising costs and shifting economic conditions have made every step of the homebuying journey feel higher-stakes, and the pressure of […]
News Published: Friday, July 10, 2026, 10:54 [IST] Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Thalapathy Vijay is headed to Karur today to meet the family of the victim of the unfortunate Karur stampede that occurred on September 27 2025 during the TVK party rally where Vjay was part of it. This is the first time CM Vijay […]
Investing in the shipping industry may seem like the ultimate contrarian trade. After all, the ink on the deal between the US and Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is barely dry, and volumes are sharply down in the Suez Canal. Throw in the disruption caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the […]
Fidji Simo is stepping down from her role as CEO of Applications at OpenAI and transitioning to being a part-time adviser due to a chronic medical condition. Simo said in a Thursday (July 9) post on X that she had been on medical leave for three months, that she learned that her road to recovery […]
Ben Kallos was upset. Not hostile, but definitely not happy. The former Council member had called this spring to object to my column about Hal Fetner’s failed attempt to build housing on a NYCHA site. This paragraph in particular bothered him: “Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other progressives are now pushing for more affordable housing in […]
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For most of financial history, markets kept fixed hours. They opened, they closed, and once they closed you were stuck: you couldn’t adjust a position or react to news until they reopened, so risk just sat there building over the gap. That’s changing now, and the clearest sign of it is two assets that look […]
Stamp duty costs are preventing homeowners from moving, according to analysis from property portal Zoopla, with bills reaching five figures across southern England. Richard Donnell, Executive Director at Zoopla, said that where stamp duty becomes a “meaningful friction”, transactions are abandoned. “For home movers, stamp duty is a near-certain cost wherever you live – and […]
Economists now expect the Federal Reserve to hold rates steady through the end of 2026, with a May 2026 consumer price index reading hitting 3.8% — its highest annual level since May 2023 — constraining the central bank’s room to move. Meanwhile, minutes from the June 16–17 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting revealed that “many participants […]